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To: RnMomof7
God ordained Herod and Pontius Pilate for the most horrific act of men in all time..the crucification of His son,

These are all responses to free will decisions that God has known from all eternity seen as one NOW in the eyes of God,thus, evil has no attachment to God whatsoever

You're rationalizing evil as something God ordered and thus attaching evil to God as His plan in creation,but there can not be creation without there being love and goodness as a first cause of creation-that first cause of everything is love from God who is Love that can NOT have Evil in Him,thus a first cause is always good

This includes Adam and Eve etc..and so on

This fits perfectly with Scripture...

"Thou lovest all things that are, and hatest nothing of the things that Thou hast made "-Wisdom 11:25

It does not matter what I believe it only matters what God says ...

You're interpreting what God says wrong and placing God as incapable of creating everyone for goodness,thus making God the creator of evil who wills both evil and good-this is zeus god-not anything like Christ

From Blessed Thomas Aquinas...

That God cannot will Evil

EVERY act of God is an act of virtue, since His virtue is His essence .

2. The will cannot will evil except by some error coming to be in the reason, at least in the matter of the particular choice there and then made. For as the object of the will is good, apprehended as such, the will cannot tend to evil unless evil be somehow proposed to it as good; and that cannot be without error.* But in the divine cognition there can be no error. 3. God is the sovereign good, admitting no intermixture of evil. 4. Evil cannot befall the will except by its being turned away from its end. But the divine will cannot be turned away from its end, being unable to will except by willing itself . It cannot therefore will evil; and thus free will in it is naturally established in good. This is the meaning of the texts: God is faithful and without iniquity (Deut. xxxii, 4); Thine eyes are clean, O Lord, and thou canst not look upon iniquity (Hab. i, 13).

3,010 posted on 01/14/2010 1:43:09 PM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi

Read your Bible.. It says CLEARLY the crucification was ordained by God.....


3,013 posted on 01/14/2010 1:47:12 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.)
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